 Hey guys welcome back to my youtube channel this is Daniel Rosal here I want to do a video today about how to top up your RAVCAV if you are living in Israel now if you're living in Israel then you probably already know what the RAVCAV is it's a really useful travel card and it's interchangeable between different providers as well so you can use it on Egid you can use it on Afiqim the different bus companies and in Jerusalem you can also use it on the light rail system so there's a whole bunch of uses for us and you can get around Israel's public transport using the RAVCAV now the most common way to top up the RAVCAV at these days is probably using NFC that's how most people would do it you can see there's download links um on RAVCAV online uh .co.il and there's an android app and there is an iOS app um however you can also do it from your computer if you have a card reader and you can pick these up from the RAVCAV stations finally you can also do it from different top-up points that are located physically throughout the country um I personally use the computer method I'm a little bit old school like that and I like to do this process for my desktop so in this video I just want to show people how to go about doing that so first thing is that if you want to change the language out of Hebrew the website it's translated into English Russian and Arabic and it's at RAVCAV online .co.il but for this video I'm actually just going to use the Hebrew interface so uh click on kinesa in order to get in and it explains what your options are here uh application so if your phone has NFC you can simply hold your RAVCAV up you firstly download the app then you physically hold your RAVCAV to your phone making sure that NFC is enabled and then you'll get the option to top up your card and after you've paid the technology on your phone the NFC reader-writer will load the contract onto your physical card or you can use one of the top-up points as I mentioned finally and this is the option I'm going to be demonstrating in today's video so what this is it's an NFC reader that as I said you can pick up from one of the RAVCAV stations that are located throughout Israel so I'm going to click on that and we're going to go into the the system so as I mentioned in a couple of my videos I'm one of those strange people who use the Linux operating system if you happen to be using Linux or Ubuntu the good news is these cool people at RAVCAV actually have a official Ubuntu client so you can just download that assuming you're using Windows or Mac then it's also available for Windows and Mac so all you need to do is click on these icons so I've just downloaded the Windows file and if I click on Mac and I just allow the downloads here then that will download a pkg file for Mac and there's also there's a button here I'm shach lalo horada which means obviously continue without downloading an installer my experience it works better using that installer so firstly go ahead and do that so after you've done that click on this button here see empty uh leta ken uh I'm shach and then we'll continue so once you've succeeded in uh physically placing your RAVCAV into the NFC reader then it's going to automatically load up your details and you can see at the time of recording this I have a 370 shackle stored on this particular RAVCAV um you can see the RAVCAV number I mine is blurred out here but that's what the number that appears here um and I've got a profile uh regular profile and this particular RAVCAV is valid through uh 2027 so you can see the expiration date as well now if you want to add more money onto your RAVCAV so you can do a few things all using the system firstly you can just load up stored value or you can load a monthly contract so if you're living in one of the cities and you want to install a which gives you access to uh for the duration of that month within the travel zones it'll give you unlimited travel then you can do that all using the system I'm just going to put on a 200 shackles here so it says so I'm going to click on this now they do have this really nice thing thing at the moment in order to incentivize the system I guess uh you pay for 200 but you can see that I'm actually going to get 250 shackles so at the time I'm recording this they actually pretty much are giving you a bit of free money which is super cool uh so you have to choose your operator here as well so I'm going to choose Egid and uh this is valid throughout the country and it just does point out here that it's going to be there's that 90-minute rule is applying as well so after you've clicked on the amount of stored value you want to put in you need to put in your national ID number into this field and then click on the pay button and once you finish the transaction it's going to be you're going to get this confirmation message and now that contract has been loaded onto you'll also receive automatically a confirmation email just confirming you giving you proof of purchase as well now if I return to the home page of the RAVCAV system you can see that it's saying that the contract was successfully loaded at this time the 200 shackles was applied it actually got 250 and now my updated balance on this RAVCAV is 621 shackles that's all you need to know to do it from the computer it's a really really easy process and if you've made it this far you can now go ahead and remove your RAVCAV from the NFC reader and you'll be able to place that onto the RAVCAV reader on buses or trains and you'll be able to use your updated balance this is the RAVCAV reader I picked mine up um about a year ago um it's just a usb NFC device and what you need to do is just place this connect this into a usb port uh on your computer and once you've done that this will start flashing in green and then just physically take your RAVCAV and place it in to the slot and once you've done that the green light will go on to steady state once you finish the loading process all you need to do is take your RAVCAV out of the RAVCAV reader you can leave that hooked up to your computer or you can put it back in your cabinet and use it the next time you need to add money onto your RAVCAV thank you guys for watching if you'd like to get more videos from me please subscribe to this youtube channel